A United Nations official says between 20 and 50 people have been killed in violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea MELBOURNE, Australia -- Violence among illegal miners in Papua New ...

The violence occurred near the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea's central highlands A series of shootouts between rival tribes over a disputed gold mine has left at least 30 people dead in ...

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he traveled to ...

In his address to officials in Port Moresby, Pope Francis called for responsible use of natural resources, an end to tribal ...

Pope Francis visited Papua New Guinea Saturday, where he called for vast natural resources to benefit the "entire community" — a politically charged demand in a nation where many believe their ...

Pope Francis held an open-air mass for tens of thousands of Papua New Guinea's faithful on Sunday, imploring this nation "at ...

Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday evening from Indonesia, where the 87-year-old leader of the global ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea: Pope Francis on Saturday (Sep 7) called for better treatment of workers in Papua New Guinea, a nation of some 600 islands in the Southwestern Pacific that has ...

The Pope visited Vanimo, a coastal town on a peninsula in northwest Papua New Guinea close to the border with Papua, a ...

Clashes between rival tribes over a disputed gold mine in Papua New Guinea have left at least 30 dead. Police have been given emergency powers, including lethal force authorisation, to restore order.

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea -- Pope Francis boarded an Australian Royal Air Force C-130 on Sunday and flew over the pristine jungles of Papua New Guinea, travelling to the faraway settlement of ...

Pope Francis will arrive in one of the world's most remote Catholic communities in Papua New Guinea on Sunday to something ...